After being fired from her post as Chief of the Special Victims Unit for refusing to "go along to get along," Alice Vachss published the incendiary Sex Crimes, described as "a stark, passionate closing argument in her] broader case against the criminal justice system" by the NY Times, which named it as a Notable Book of the Year. Nick (Goodfellas) Pileggi called it "the single best book about prosecuting sex crimes in America, period." Now, twenty years later, Alice Vachss becomes Special Prosecutor for Sex Crimes in a new environment ... on the opposite coast, in a small rural community. And asks the critical question: What has changed? Sex Crimes: Then and Now shreds the myths about sex crime prosecution in America, revealing that the passage of time and a different locale are mere window dressing for horrors America has yet to face. For those who want something more than press releases and Trash-TV "coverage," this no-compromises ebook offers the brutal truth. In Sex Crimes: Then, (included free in this two-book package) the woman the press described as one of America's toughest prosecutors grippingly recounts her career and in the process offers a searing indictment of our justice system. Included are close-ups of her most harrowing cases, among them the predatory pedophile who headed a boy's club to get closer to victims; the serial rapist who terrorized the city as "The Stalker" and the violent incest offender who tortured his "property" (his own daughter.) "My first lesson about sex crimes prosecution," Vachss writes, "was that perpetrators were not the only enemy." She shows how the system is heavily weighted against victims. In what has come to be her trademarked term, she brands as "rape collaborators" police officers and judges whose ingrained attitudes aid and comfort criminals; elected officials and attorneys concerned only with their political futures; fickle juries seemingly impervious to compelling evidence; and a legal system skeptical of cries of rape. Asked in a 2007 interview in The Guardian "Does she miss putting rapists in prison? 'Hell, yes, ' says Vachss. Would she return to the front line? 'Am I willing to put up with the politics of running for office, or the backstabbing and infighting of being an employee of an elected official? That's a much tougher question.'" Julie Bindel, "The rapists' enemy"] Sex Crimes: Now finds Alice Vachss, still the same, back in the trenches insisting to a jury: "I don't have to prove motive. The motive for rape is rape, " and battling a system hell-bent on freeing a monster. Inevitably, Vachss reached a point of no return, "Years before, Richard A. Brown's response when he was asked why he fired me was that I'd done an excellent job. Ever-aware of the politics of prosecution, Brown had waited until he was elected, not simply appointed, before taking it upon himself to decide how much weight 'doing an excellent job' would or would not carry in his office. All these years later this new DA was about to make the same decision." Reviewed as "even better than the original" Sex Crimes: Now is an important and immensely readable sequel.
What reviewers have said about Sex Crimes: Then and Now
Read this book: you will never forget it.
This should be required reading for every school in America.
I think this title should be mandatory for everyone.
Автор: Ackerman Alissa R., Furman Rich Название: Sex Crimes: Transnational Problems and Global Perspectives ISBN: 0231169493 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780231169493 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5544.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is the first to investigate all aspects of sexual crimes and the policy and management initiatives developed to address them from a transnational, global perspective
Автор: Linde Christine Burkey Название: Forensic Investigation of Sex Crimes and Sexual Offenders, ISBN: 0323228046 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780323228046 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5664.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The investigation of sex crimes is a specific function for many law enforcement agencies, requiring an understanding of how to investigate, process crime scenes, interact with victims and offenders, and prepare for court.
Автор: Satow Название: An Austrian Diplomatist in the Fifties ISBN: 1107418852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107418851 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2693.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1908, this book presents the content of the Rede Lecture for that year, which was delivered by Sir Ernest Satow at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in European history and diplomacy.
Автор: Penny Tinkler, Stephanie Spencer, Claire Langhamer Название: Women in Fifties Britain: A New Look ISBN: 0367234319 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367234317 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6736.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection re-visions the history of girls and women in Britain in the 1950s and offers new ways of thinking about established and new categories of historical analysis. Its methodological and conceptual interventions enrich and extend women`s history. It was originally published as a special issue of Women`s History Review.
Название: Women in Fifties Britain ISBN: 1138104612 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138104617 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This collection re-visions the history of girls and women in Britain in the 1950s and offers new ways of thinking about established and new categories of historical analysis. Its methodological and conceptual interventions enrich and extend women`s history. It was originally published as a special issue of Women`s History Review.
Автор: Burkey Название: Forensic Investigation of Sex Crimes and Sexual Offenders ISBN: 1138176729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138176720 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 26796.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The investigation of sex crimes is a specific function for many law enforcement agencies, requiring an understanding of how to investigate, process crime scenes, interact with victims and offenders, and prepare for court.
Автор: Dwyer Michael D. Название: Back to the Fifties ISBN: 019935684X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199356843 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5701.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Through close attention to films like Back to the Future and popular music of artists like Michael Jackson, Back to the Fifties explores how Fifties nostalgia was shaped for a generation of teenagers trained by popular culture to rewind, record, recycle and replay.
Автор: Olesker Michael Название: Front Stoops in the Fifties: Baltimore Legends Come of Age ISBN: 1421424258 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781421424255 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 4805.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Front Stoops in the Fifties recounts the stories of some of Baltimore's most famous personalities as they grew up during the "decade of conformity." Such familiar names as Jerry Leiber, Nancy Pelosi, Thurgood Marshall, and Barry Levinson figure prominently in Michael Olesker's gripping account, which draws on personal interviews and journalistic digging.
Olesker marks the end of the fifties with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. "It's as if millions will suddenly decide to act out their anxieties and their rage, as if Kennedy's murder exposed some hypocrisy at the heart of the American dream," he writes. Focusing on the period leading up to this turning point in U.S. history, Olesker looks to the individuals living through the changes that were just beginning to surface and would later come to prominence in the sixties.
The fifties are often remembered with longing as a more innocent time. But it was also a suffocating time for many. Alongside innocence was ignorance. Olesker tells the story of Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi, daughter of the mayor, who grew up in a political home and eventually became the first woman Speaker of the House. Thurgood Marshall, schooled in a racially segregated classroom, went on to argue Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka before the U.S. Supreme Court and rewrite race-relations law. Even the music changed. Olesker's doo-wop portrait of Baltimore is nostalgic, but it has a hard edge.
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